Collaborative Leadership for Better Preparedness:
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Presenter
Betty Bekemeier, MSN, MPH, RN, is a Public Health Nurse with 19 years of experience in public health practice. She is Deputy Director of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Turning Point National Program Office at the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health and is a doctoral student at the UW School of Nursing. She holds leadership positions on the Board of the Washington State Public Health Association and in the American Public Health Association. The majority of Betty's career has been in local public health were she has worked in a variety of positions including providing Public Health Nursing field services, managing field staff and clinical programs, and heading up community assessment activities as an epidemiologist. She has also provided epidemiologic and community assessment consulting services to rural health departments and got her start as a nursing instructor in Papua New Guinea.
Description
This online, interactive presentation focuses on using collaborative leadership in public health preparedness. The presentation will differentiate traditional and collaborative leadership, demonstrate how collaborative leadership applies to public health, and describe the utility of using these techniques to respond to public health problems and crises. It will also help participants determine how they might improve their effectiveness by applying these principles to their own public health projects and collaborations.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how collaborative leadership enhances effectiveness in response to a public health crisis.
- Identify specific principles of collaborative leadership that would be useful for enhancing your own effectiveness in collaborating with new public health partners.
- Describe opportunities in your own work setting in which collaborative leadership can be used to increase the effectiveness of your agency's preparedness activities.
Competencies
Council on Linkages, Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
5. Community Dimensions of Practice Skills
5B3. Establishes linkages with key stakeholders
5B4. Facilitates collaboration and partnerships to ensure participation of key stakeholders
7. Financial Planning and Management Skills
7B3. Develops partnerships with agencies within the federal, state, and local levels of government that have authority over public health situations or with specific issues, such as emergency events
8. Leadership and System Thinking Skills
8C2. Integrates system thinking into public health practice
8C9. Ensures the management of organizational change
CDC, Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competency Model
1. Model Leadership
1.3 Facilitate collaboration with internal and external emergency response partners
3. Plan for and Improve Practice
3.2 Contribute expertise to the development of emergency plans
CDC, Public Health Preparedness Capabilities
Capability 1: Community Preparedness
Function 2: Build community partnerships to support health preparedness
Appropriate Audience
- Local public health department staff
- State public health department staff participating in preparedness efforts
- Community stakeholders participating in preparedness efforts
Slides and Related Resources
Collaborative Leadership for Better Preparedness [ 395 KB PowerPoint® Slides ]
Betty Bekemeier has agreed to field e-mail queries regarding collaborative leadership in public health.
